Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 2, Number 2, 1 Pepeluali 1985 — Ka Wai Ola Praised for "Fine Coverage" [ARTICLE]

Ka Wai Ola Praised for "Fine Coverage"

Reports of activities in the Pacif ic islands in Ka Wai Ola O OHA have resulted in recognition for the communication arm of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and its editor. In a letter from R.G. Crocombe, director of the Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, he extends "congratulations on the publication of Ka Wai Ola whieh help to keep us in touch with activities in Hawaii."

He finds it most encouraging to find friends from Hawaii taking an active interest in the Pacific islands and offered to announee two upcoming events open to_all Hawaii people. There is a Pacific History Conference scheduled June 27-July 2 and a university summer school course titled, "Pacific History Course," June 24-July 24. There is a $10 fee for the conference. The month-long credit course has a $150 fee. Aeeomodations are available on campus for $15 a day, including three meals. There are also accomodations in the city two miles away.

Interested Hawaii residents may write Crocombe at USP, Box 1 168, Suva, Fiji. Locally, the newspaper a!so drew praise from the Hawaii Chinese History Center "on the fine coverage by OHA of the recent 'Gathering of the Clans' conference" at Keauhou, Kona. "I look forward to our committee working with OHA for the eommon good of native Hawaiians, many of whom are part-Chinese, and in turn, for the eommon good of all the peoples of Hawaii, for this land has been so good to all of us," writes Larry F. Ching, chairman of the organization's 200th Anniversary (1989) Committee of the Chinese in Hawaii.